Fun & Famous

LIFE HACK: FRIENDS WHO DRINK TOGETHER, STAY TOGETHER

Do you ever feel like an extreme booze infused person when you’re around certain friends? Confession: I sure do. Take my ‘bestie’ (ugh, what an awful word) Roos. When she and I are together, there’s wine. And cigarettes. The circumstances don’t matter.

Are we hyper? We drink wine. Sad? Wine. Tired? Ha, there the bottle is again. On a diet? Eat less but don’t spare the wine. The thought alone. Ha-ha-ha. I seriously thought we had a problem, but apparently we happen to be making a great investment. Not necessarily health related (sorry liver), but an investment in each other. If you happen to uncork a bottle a lot together (on the couch, at dinner, anywhere), your friendship has a bright future. Say what, yes really, it’s by far the best news of the day.

‘And if the latter information isn’t already great enough, my colleague Theo just poured me a glass of white wine’

French research has shown that people who drink together, stay friends for longer. And I’m not talking about random ‘research’ that’s been conducted with under one hundred hammered teenagers, no, the Public Assistance Hospitals of Paris collected information from 150.000 French men and women. They were divided into five groups based on how much alcohol they drink on a daily basis. The outcome? Drinkers are among the ‘healthy people’ among us. Not because of the drinking itself, but because they’ve got more of an urge to live an active, social and fun life. Besides this, wine drinking friends also stay friends for longer and are happier in life.

See. I knew it. And if the latter information isn’t already great enough, my colleague Theo just poured me a glass of white wine. Because Wednesday is the new Friday (I’m typing this on a Wednesday). Seriously, I love this company. And uh Roos, your place or mine tonight?